On top of it, the marketplace for diamonds can be really confusing. There are grades of clarity and color that lead to an overall quality rating. And, of course, diamonds are very expensive. The ...

Deep below the surface of our world, far beyond our feeble reach, enigmatic processes grind and roil. Every now and then, the Earth disgorges clues to their nature: tiny chthonic diamonds encasing ...

Jeweler Harry Winston donated the famous Hope Diamond—the largest-known deep blue diamond in the world—to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958. It arrived in a plain brown package by registered mail, ...

Two materials, lonsdaleite and wurtzite, have just been recognized as being harder than diamonds. Lonsdalite, similar to diamonds that its made from carbon, is formed during asteroid impacts, and is ...

In industrial pipes, mineral deposits build up the way limescale collects inside a kettle ⎯ only on a far larger and more ...

The lab grown diamond industry has become more and more popular in recent years. "Laboratory grown diamonds are very popular," said Joe Yatooma, owner of Dash Diamonds in West Bloomfield. Yatooma said ...

An international team led by researchers from the University of Cologne has solved the mystery of an extraordinary phenomenon ...

Carl Walsh holds a QUT postgraduate research award (PRA) scholarship. Balz Kamber receives funding from the Australian Research Council for Discovery Grant DP220100136 for work that will build on the ...